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Space

Report Says Many Space Weapons Systems Would Carry Huge Cost

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Monday, November 12th, 2007

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But Some Systems Might Be Cost-Effective For Limited Missions Placing weapons in space or installing systems in orbit to defend space assets such as satellites from attack could be inordinately expensive, according to a report from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA). Price tags for various types of systems could range from the tens of billions of dollars to hundreds of billions, according to CSBA figures based on its own calculations and estimates of other experts, in the…

Budget

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Congress

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Congress

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